Introduction
People seek mechanics when they encounter cars problem. Plus, people also seek
doctors when they feel unwell or sick. These people are identified as human expert as they
are expertise in their specific area. Due to increasing of population of human in the world,
some of the needs cannot be fulfilled due to less human expert.
Thus, a knowledge based system was introduced. Piatti, Antonucci and Zaffalon
(2010) defined knowledge based systems (KBS) as an application developed in computer that
have the same level of human expert in a specific domain. Expert system (ES) or knowledge
based system consists of a knowledge base and the reasoning engine (Tripathi, 2011).
KBS is sort of a replica of the human expert. Dragulescu and Albu (2007) stated that
KBS does not take over the human expert but assist them. Why is that so? This is because the
human experts may have problem while helping their customers such as fatigue, stress and so
on (Dragulescu & Albu, 2007). The advantages of KBS are the knowledge representation that
used was easy to understand, direct approaches and the system can be enforced orderly
(Sadeghian & Lavers, 2004).
Knowledge engineering is a process of building the system (Piatti, Antonucci &
Zaffalon, 2010). The knowledge engineer will take important role in this process. They
acquire the expert knowledge and build a KBS based on it. The belief that an expert holds is
actually expert knowledge (Piatti, Antonucci & Zaffalon, 2010). Based on Piatti, Antonucci
and Zaffalon (2010), they mentioned that knowledge engineer must choose a mathematical
formalism when building it to show the expert knowledge.
Medical field
Dimitrios (2012) wrote that to build a health system, more knowledge from medical,
engineering and technology fields are wanted by the managements. He also stated that the
importance of information of human, material and financial in are worsen as the time passes
(Dimitrios, 2012). Yang, Li and Liu (2011) stated that due to increasing number of patients
that need best and inexpensive medical treatment has become the center objective of medical
industry to improve their services.
Prototype
development
Figure 1. Prototype at an early Stage, in West African Journal of Industrial & Academic
Research, retrieved from www.ajol.info/index.php/wajiar/article/download/114994/104618.
Copyright 2014 by West African Journal of Industrial & Academic Research.
Figure 1. Flag of Maldova. From Moldova, [Flag], in Encyclopedia Britannica, retrieved from
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/media/62190/. Copyright 2012 by Encyclopedia Britannica.